Hi, friends. Welcome to another episode of That Sounds Fun. I'm your host, Annie F. Downs. I'm so happy to be here with you today. As many of you know, I had surgery about a week and a half ago and was out for a little bit. And I just wanted to thank you so much for your kindness and your prayers.

During all of that, but man, I'm glad to be back at healing is not linear. And so it is not every day is a little bit better, but we are on the up and up. And so I'm really grateful to our team for how they helped manage a sudden missing Annie for a little more than a week. And I'm really grateful to y'all for your kindness and prayers. And you can continue on praying for complete healing. I am really thankful for that. So here we are. We are back. And before we dive into today's conversation, I want to

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Today on the show, I get to talk with my friend, Bri McCoy. Oh, friends, you are going to love her. You may have seen Breeze fun recipes and cooking tips on Instagram or read her last book. But today we get to talk about her brand new book, the cooks book recipes for keeps and essential techniques to master everyday cooking. And it comes out tomorrow. So you can still

Bri order it. Do you hear that? It's not pre-ordering. It's pre-ordering. I love it. Y'all this book is so fun. It's beautiful. It's really helpful. It's got tips on how to make your food more flavorful, how to carve your knives, keeping your pantry stocked with the things you need, making soups and sauces from scratch. And literally so much more. It is like the cookbook filled with cooking 101 tips. So you have everything you need.

I know you're going to love this conversation. We talk about literally everything, including the Taco Bell app. Y'all just need to talk about it with us. So here is my conversation with my friend, Bri McCoy.

Bri McCoy, I have an honest question. Is this your first time on that sounds fun? Yes, I can't believe it. I can't believe that either. We are the most fun. I know. That is insane to me. First of all, sincerest apologies. Public sincerest apologies. No problem. I'm so happy to be here.

I can't imagine that this is your first time here. But alas, it is. Will you back me up? Cause here's what I don't know. Why cooking? I mean, when we met, you worked for compassion. Absolutely. And I also hated cooking. So you hated it. I hated it. Not only did I not know how to cook. I hated that whole concept to me sounded awful.

This is so interesting because I need to know people are listening going like that to Annie because I don't hate it. I can do it because I'm from the South. But I like my kitchen is a hallway. Yes, then I walk through. Yes, and as a fridge. That was my first kitchen. It was like, oh, this is extra closet storage. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. There's something to hold my cold food. Exactly. But that's about it. And that's about it. My seltzer waters. Yes.

That's all this is today. So you hated cooking. Yes. I was I hated it before and I hated it after. Okay. Okay. So marriage isn't what I'm missing in this particular situation. Okay. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. I was like this. And I honestly felt like it was an important part of my DNA. Like I don't cook. I eat. I know I take a little too much pride in it. It's probably like, I don't cook. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, I don't think that's not me. But unfortunately I found out after we got married,

we can't eat out every night.

And I was like, no, no, no.

We were like, wait, this was not in the vows.

This was not in marriage counseling.

Right, right, right.

I was like, what are we talking about?

Right, right, right.

Oh my gosh.

I was like, well, this was fun.

See you later.

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